Court Rules Google’s Relationship With The NSA Can Remain Secret
Be careful what you search? Via Forbes one week ago:
In the ruling Friday, the DC Circuit court…
ETHICAL HACKERS TALK INTERNET TERRORISM, ANONYMOUS, AND DDOS ATTACKS
OK, prepare yourself for some pretty dense internet jargon, all in the name of safety. Originally…
Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet surveillance
Scared that CISPA might pass? The federal government is already using a secretive cybersecurity…
Did government scientists really create a secret quantum internet?
No, not really. But for two years, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs have been working on…
Why Our Brains Get Addicted to the Internet (and How to Avoid It)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI&w=627&h=383]While the internet allows us to do more than ever, all that potential productivity comes with a price: endless distraction. This video from the folks at Epipheo illustrates the kind of…
What Would Your Life Be Like with No Internet?
American scientists led by Richard Novatsonconducted quite an interesting, but also relevant study…
U.S. Department Of Justice Secretly Granted Immunity For Internet Providers Engaging In Cybersurveillance Program
If it’s in the name of “security,” telecommunications corporations can now monitor users’ personal…
Can you be sued for anonymous comments on the Internet?
How can you sue an anonymous commenter on the Internet? By forcing the website that hosted the comment to give up the details of the commenter via subpoena. A current court case is trying that very tactic, and if it succeeds, it may change the face of the Internet for good.
At some point or another, everyone on the Internet has had to deal with an annoying anonymous commenter spewing some kind of invective in their direction. It’s a simple fact of online life, right…? Well, maybe not for much longer. A lawsuit in Idaho sees a politician suing an anonymous commenter and asking for $10,000 in damages.
The politician in question is Tina Jacobson, chair of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, who has launched a lawsuit against a commenter who identified themselves as “Almost Innocent Bystander” following a couple of comments made on a February 14, 2012, blogpost on the website for the Idaho Spokesman-Review newspaper. The comments thread accompanying a post which featured a photograph of Jacobson alongside other local Republican figures, was disrupted by Almost Innocent Bystander’s seemingly-out-of-nowhere comment that $10,000 allegedly missing from the Central Committee’s funds could be found “stuffed inside Tina’s blouse,” with a second comment by the user going on to outright accuse her of embezzlement.
Homeland Security Releases Keyword List Used to Monitor Social Networking Sites
If you are thinking about tweeting about clouds, pork, exercise or even Mexico, think again. Doing so may result in a closer look by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In a story appearing earlier today on the UK’s Daily Mail website, it was reported that the DHS has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites when looking for “signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.”
The list was posted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act, before suing to obtain the release of the documents. The documents were part of the department’s 2011 ’Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify ‘media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities’.
Read More: Forbes.
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FBI’s New Secretive Surveillance Unit Can Spy on Skype and Wireless Communications
The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.
The establishment of the Quantico, VA-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement’s ability to listen in on private communications.
While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC — it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who’s running it, for instance — CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents.
DCAC’s mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order…
- Read More: cNet News.
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